Lilya Budaghyan is a Norwegian-Armenian cryptographer, computer scientist, and discrete mathematician known for her work on cryptographic Boolean functions. She is a professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, where she directs the Selmer Center in Secure Communication and leads Boolean functions team.

Education and career

Lilya Budaghyan earned a diploma in mathematics, ''

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'', from Yerevan State University in 1998. After additional graduate research at Yerevan State University, she completed a Ph.D. at

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg The Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg () (''OvGU'') was founded in 1993, making it one of the youngest universities in Germany. The university is located in Magdeburg, the Capital city of Saxony-Anhalt and has about 13.000 students in nine ...

in Germany in 2005. Her PhD dissertation is ''The equivalence of almost bent and almost perfect nonlinear functions and their generalizations''. After postdoctoral research at the

University of Trento The University of Trento (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Trento'') is an Italian university located in Trento and nearby Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics, research, and international relations accor ...

, Italy, the University of Bergen, and the

University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (french: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) is a public university in Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public institution. It is one of the th ...

, she became a professor at the University of Bergen in 2019.

Works

Lilya Budaghyan is the author of the book ''Construction and Analysis of Cryptographic Functions'' (Springer, 2014). Also, she is a co-author for the works "''New classes of almost bent and almost perfect nonlinear polynomials''", "''Constructing new APN functions from known ones''", "''Two classes of quadratic APN binomials inequivalent to power functions''", ''"Constructing APN functions through isotopic shifts", "A new family of APN quadrinomials", "Relation between o-equivalence and EA-equivalence for Niho bent functions", "On two fundamental problems on APN power functions, ""On the Distance Between APN Functions", "An Optimal Universal Construction for the Threshold Implementation of Bijective S-boxes"'' and others.

Recognition

Prof. Budaghyan won the Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics in 2011 for a joint paper with Tor Helleseth titled ''“New commutative semifields defined by new PN multinomials”''. In 2022 another paper co-authored by Lilya Budaghyan led to Emil Artin Junior Prize "Relation between o-equivalence and EA-equivalence for Niho bent functions". Lilya Budaghyan held PhD fellowship of Saxen Anhalt (2002), postdoctoral fellowship of Foundation of Mathematical Sciences of Paris (2012), habilitation in mathematics from the University of Paris 8 (2013), "Young Research Talent" grant from the Research Council of Norway (2014), Trond Mohn foundation starting grant award (2016). She is a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences The Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences ( no, Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi, NTVA) is a learned society based in Trondheim, Norway. Founded in 1955, the academy has about 500 members. It is a member of the International Council of Aca ...

, elected in 2019.

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